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To: Kachina who wrote (5945)12/17/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Kachina  Respond to of 12623
 
Technically speaking - I did not do the initial $4 billion profit calculation - I saw that, and checked it. (Just wanting to allocate credit correctly.)

But it should be noted that the $4 billion profit figure assumes that the company distributes ALL profits as dividends. That is a little silly to think they would do no re-investment.

And - Amazon has not yet gotten past the business model of losing money on book sales yet.



To: Kachina who wrote (5945)12/17/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: Jeff Dryer  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 12623
 
Here are some approximate
annual statistics for Wal-Mart:

Revenue: $150 billion
Net Income: $4.3 billion
Market Cap: $170 billion

With a current market cap of about $14.5 billion, Amazon's market cap is less than 1/10th that of Wal-Mart's. Amazon would only need to earn $365 million or so in annual after tax profits to be valued at Wal-Mart's current P/E multiple.


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